Am 17.01.2012 21:47, schrieb gene heskett:
> Greets all;
>
> Going thru the docs for eagle, in this case following the tutorial_en.pdf,
> resetting the directories to where they exist on that machine seems to
> stick over an exit and restart. Checking requirements, I see that
> libpng14.so.14 is required so you helped me build a script:
> gene@shop:/opt/eagle-6.1.0$ cat bin/eagle
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(dirname "$0")" "$(dirname "$0")/eagle.orig" $@
>
> It doesn't complain about a missing library so I assume that is working,
> but for a universal launcher, should I not have a /usr/bin bash script that
> first does a cd to /opt/eagle-6.1.0/ in order to setup the pwd, and then do
> a 'bin/eagle'? In any event, it seems to work.
>
> I have eagle open and showing my project(empty of course) highlighted with
> a green indicator button dot in the left pane of the window.
>
> Reading along in the tut and seeing a few things as I go along in its
> description, I get to pages 12-13-14 where it says
> 'Option->Menu etc' or Options/Set, Color tab,
>
> But when I open the option menu, I only have 4 items:
>
> Directories
> Backup
> User Interface
> Window positions
These settings are only available when you are in the schematic or board
window, not main window.
> I've been thru the user interface panel & changed a few things, like
> inverting the foreground/background colors used, but with no effects seen.
These settings only apply for the schematics and board window, not main
window.
> The settings do seem to stick over a quit & restart ok.
>
> I don't seem to be able to create an empty schematic page, only ever deeper
> directories named for the page.sch I want. This under the 'file' menu.
Normally you just have to click file->new->schematic to create an empty
schematic window. You can also right click on the selected project
folder (green dot at the right of it) and select new->schematic to start.
>
> I can open the libraries and select the device, which then opens in its own
> window showing it both schematically and a footprint outline but despite
> reading how to select and use the device, I have no 'schematic' window to
> copy it into, so none of those commands do anything, not even blinking the
> screen to indicate an error. The claim is made that a device should be
> hanging from the cursor when selected, but its never happened. It is also
> single threaded making it impossible to do a drag & drop because as long as
> the library window is open, all others appear to be unfocusable, greyed
> out. I get the impression that when I am looking at the selected device in
> the library's window, that I am actually looking at the device in its
> editor window, presumably not the select and use window. And no clue how
> to get there except I have now gotten there probably 20 times by opening
> the library, then opening the library in that window and clicking on the
> now visible devices name which appears to open an editor to edit the
> device.
>
> Do I have a defective install? or am I just too damned dumb??
This is the wrong way of working with eagle. When you open a library
than only if you want to create/edit/delete parts in the library. For
using it you go through the schematic/board window and use the "ADD"
function which uses these libraries.
>
> I have also downloaded & unpacked pcb-gcode-3.5.2.11.zip, which seems to be
> a fairly major suite of tools in its own right, but haven't attempted to
> sort that basket of rattlesnakes just yet. Looks simple enough, unzip it
> to a 'ulp' directory & add that to the ulp directory path, so now I have 2
> ulp directories. One with the contents of that zip in it. Kewl. But in
> eagle, I have yet to find that command line box talked about in the tuts so
> I can't run the setup utility it talks about in its install.html. And I
> just noted that this added ulp directory, built where the docs said to
> build it, also shows up in the projects menu. No clue if that is good or
> bad, just commenting.
Instead of using the commandline in eagle to run it you can (in the
schematic/board window) use file->execute ULP and select the
corresponding ulp file like pcb-gcode-setup.ulp which does the same.
Ciao,
Rainer
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